Musical fairy tale in preschool

The main purpose of this diploma work is to study the frequency and ways in which a musical fairy tale appears in the practice of the preschool period. In the theoretical part, we presented the role of music in the child's holistic development and defined the musical development of the preschool child. We defined a fairy tale as such and then we focused on a musical fairy tale. We described its characteristics, explained its significance and impact on children's development, and described the steps of performing a musical fairy tale (from planning to the performance itself). At the end of the theoretical part, we have given some examples of musical fairy tales by different authors. In the empirical part, we used a quantitative research method, namely an online questionnaire, to check the frequency of realization of a musical fairy tale and to determine possible differences between the frequency of realization of musical fairy tales in first and second age group. We also identified ways of realization and the types of musical tales used by pre-school teachers. We also checked the pre-school teacher’s opinion on the importance and impact of musical fairy tales on children's overall development and motivation for further musical involvement. The data were processed with Microsoft Office Excel, analyzed in terms of content, tabulated, and graphically displayed and interpreted. We found that most educators include a musical fairy tale in musical activities and most often perform it a few times a year or less. The results showed that pre-school teachers of the second age group perform musical fairy tales slightly more often than pre-school teachers of first age group. We found that most educators use both types of musical fairy tales (known authors and their own) and they perform them vocally and instrumentally. The research has shown encouraging results, as most pre-school teachers involve children in musical fairy tales and are aware of the importance of their participation. A larger percentage of pre-school teachers believe that a musical fairy tale influences a child's holistic development and motivation for further musical involvement